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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, but when it does happen, you'll probably turn into one.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When it happens? That happened to me a long time ago. I’m still a backend developer. I can create UIs and I can spin up and manage docker CI infrastructure but I sure as hell don’t want to. A properly run company team should have separate professionals for UX, front end, back end, sysadmin, etc. Just because I am capable of doing those things does not mean I should.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just because I am capable of doing those things does not mean I should.

This is the crux of why so many companies, especially smaller and medium sized ones, are a hot mess. capable of << good at, but of course it's cheaper to just get johnny to do everything.